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ponce

[ UK /pˈɒns/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑns, ˈpɑnseɪ, ˈpoʊnseɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
  2. a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses

How To Use ponce In A Sentence

  • At a shelter for people who've just been deported from the U.S., a 23-year-old Honduran named Edwin Ramos Ponce says migrants here are regularly beaten, robbed and kidnapped. In Just One Year, A Mexican City Turns Violent
  • In the other direction from Poncebos, a bizarre (and ecologically controversial) funicular railway tunnels through the rock up to the sleepy village of Bulnes.
  • Nous croyons que Jesus-Christ est grand Sacrificateur eternellement, avec serment, selon l'ordre de Melchisedec, [446] et s'est presente en notre nom devant son Pere, pour apaiser sa colere avec pleine satisfaction, [447] en s'offrant lui-meme sur l'autel de la croix, et repandant son precieux sang pour la purification de nos peches, comme les Prophetes avaient predit: car il est ecrit que le chatiment qui nous procure la paix a ete mis sur le Fils de Dieu, et que nous sommes gueris par ses plaies; qu'il a ete mene ` a la morte comme un agneau, mis au rang des pecheurs; [448] condamne comme malfaiteur par Ponce The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
  • The dozy ponce wants women-only shortlists, doesn't have a word to say about immigration, has got more 'quiff' than Blair and not one solitary noteworthy policy but a gazzillion soundbites. Army Rumour Service
  • He proudly admits he is from hard-working peasant stock and sees me as lazy, vain and probably as a ponce.
  • No matter the genre, a prat is a prat, a pompous ponce a pompous ponce. “Nation” by Terry Pratchett « The Retort
  • Well, since that was a Fourth Amendment case, and the reasonable suspicion standard has other Fourth Amendment applications, (such as when a Terry v. Ohio type stop and frisk is valid,) the discussion in Brignoni-Ponce would apply to the Fourth Amendment generally. The Volokh Conspiracy » What Will Kagan Say about AZ Immigration Law
  • We were even allowed to take time off school to visit air stations, an unexpected perk that made us the envy of classmates who thought we were all uniformed ponces.
  • You know you love prancing around like a ponce with new clothes.
  • Alizarine red WR, for yellow touch ponceau or scarlet, Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886
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